Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As we mentioned, we tried to find at least one
project for each class at school. ‘We Love Blogging’
is another eTwinning Project with Grade 5 and
Grade 7 pupils. They created a blog on their life,
school, family, customs, traditions, daily life. Our
partner schools were from Slovakia, Poland, Spain,
Denmark and Romania.
Our 5th Graders also exchanged Christmas Cards
with their peers from Poland. Moreover, they
exchanged Easter cards and parcels including
handcrafts for each other. Also 8th and 9th Graders
sent their Christmas cards to Italy, Spain, Romania
and Czech Republic.
issues. Each country also shared important pictures
reflecting social, historic, environmental or cultural
events of their own country and students had the
chance to learn much more about each other's
culture by researching and sharing information
about each picture.
In the second part of the project, one of the tasks
was working collaboratively on writing a short story
of about one thousand words. The 1st group (Greek
students) were given a couple of story openings to
choose and write the 1st part of the story which the
2nd group would stick to and continue and then the
3rd and the 4th.Words would give more words and
hence we reversed the title from 'A picture is worth
a thousand words' to 'One thousand words are
worth of what picture? After the story was
complete, students from each partner country
chose a picture to illustrate the story. You can read
the story of these enthusiastic writers.
The Last Chance
The other eTwinning project that we want to
mention is called “A Picture is worth a Thousand
Words”. We carried out it with a group of students
from 10th grade. Our partner schools were from
Greece, Poland and France. The name of our project
was “A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words” so the
students selected photos on an assigned topic,
attached short descriptions or stories and published
them on a visual platform where all participants
could be inspired to interact, evaluate and
contribute with more photographs and comments or
stories.
As part of our first task, students were asked to
take photos of people in the streets and create a
story about their lives. At the end of this task, there
was a photo-story competition and students voted
on the best two stories from each country. The two
stories from Turkey got the highest vote rate. This
task was followed by choosing photos which shook
the world. All the students were asked to do
research about these photos and were able to
become more aware of historic events and social
GREECE: Time was running out. It was John’s last
chance to prove he could cope with the high
demands of the match and his team’s expectations.
The semi-final between Greece and Poland was
approaching to its end. 10 seconds remained to
bring the winner that would face France in the final
UEFA European Championship. The coach had
called timeout and while he was giving instructions,
John’s mind was travelling away. His family had
moved to Greece from Istanbul since he was a baby
and at the age of 23, he was accepted in the
National Greek team as a promising scorer. His
school life was a complete failure because his
stammering in speech and his frequent blushing
when he felt anxious often triggered his classmates’
laugh and jokes. His sport life was not happier
either. He could feel instinctively that his
teammates did not like him. Even the coach
seemed to be prejudiced against him. He certainly
encouraged him while training but in most games
he was not given the chance to leave the bench
often. And